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...That Ain't Ed." The radio bulletins were enough to keep Ed's kin up all night, talking and laughing. Then they got a shock when Ed's half brother, Grover Dickenson, trudged in with a copy of the Roanoke Times. The newspaper carried on its front page a picture of Ed. Bessie took one look at the picture and began to cry. "That ain't my boy," she said. "Eddie was a purty boy, and look at him now. If that's him, he ain't got no teeth. I just know...
...thousands, and film by the hundreds of miles. Price of the first Kodak, $25, with a $10 charge for developing, and reloading. Twelve years later, Eastman produced a "Brownie" for $1. Photography became a major U.S. fad. "Detective cameras" were disguised as ladies' handbags, muffs, briefcases. President Grover Cleveland delightedly used his Kodak all day long on a fishing trip, was dismayed to learn in the evening that he should have wound the film. The Pink Lady, a 1911 musical, had a song...
When should a newspaper print profanity? For 125 years the answer of the Montgomery Advertiser (circ. 56,266) had been: never. But when Alabama's Governor Gordon Persons publicly and profanely denounced the Advertiser's Political Writer Geoffrey Birt, it seemed to Editor Grover C. Hall Jr. that it was time for a change. For the first time, the Advertiser printed the words "son of a bitch" -and waited for a storm of protest from its readers. By last week the storm signals were down. Only five readers had written in, three of them criticizing the governor...
...apparent superiority of the Crimson is nothing to bank upon. Stroked by Phil Grover, the Eli crew has much talent which never has pulled together; if it should, the Elis will dock victorious underdogs at New London...
Erwin Bergdoll, a University of Pennsylvania student, was with Van Pelt at the time of his death. He is the son of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, scion of a former Philadelphia brewing family...